Something like 'Doc Brown's De Lorean'?Interesting idea ..... I do hope that battery tech would be that advanced (some day) that an electric car would only need a battery the size of existing normal car battery
Actually I have a dream that a car in the future would be powered by a micro nuclear plant (fusion) the size of coke can that could power the car forever ... never say impossible though
Trade War with China
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yes, exactly ... just better and more reliable & modern and smaller and cheappper
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Yes, brownouts were happening, but not anymore.
The installation of grid batteries has solved the issue of intermittent power supply for South Australia. it has also solved brownouts due to transmission network outages. South Australia now has a more stable electricity supply that its neighbours.
Note that China is building multiple battery gigafactories.
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China may deploy the strategy of becoming the Yes man to every single demand of US for 2 years.
After 2 years , China will turn around and say I change my mind.
Buying 2 years time is enough incentive to deploy this strategy
There's a strategy under Sun Tzu for this.
兵不厌弊
After 2 years , China will turn around and say I change my mind.
Buying 2 years time is enough incentive to deploy this strategy
There's a strategy under Sun Tzu for this.
兵不厌弊
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Dizasta1
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Well with the way the US stock market has been behaving these past few weeks leading up to Christmas. And the fact that Trump Administration failed to avoid a government shut down. Indicates of things to come in 2019 with regards to US economy. As more countries join the drive to move away from the petro-dollar, and avoid (whichever way they can) any and all IMF &WB bailouts. Plus maintain trading in goods and services, with currency swaps. Then these countries would be somewhat successful in insulating their economies from US economic bullying.
The more these countries avoid trade with the US and increase their trade with SCO & BRICS. The world would realize that it is safer to conduct trade without any sword hanging over their heads. China, Russia and the three continents must develop a solid workable alternative to the SWIFT payment system in order conduct trade without any unsavory characters who wish to sabotage commerce. Countries around the world better start recognizing the fact that there is no need for dependency on one single system to conduct commerce, since this inevitably leads to monopolization and a tool to exercize hegemony over others. Snap out of it, wake the hell up, be pro-active and stop living in an inter-dimensional reality where there is no other alternative. There was, is and always will be alternatives to choose from.
The more these countries avoid trade with the US and increase their trade with SCO & BRICS. The world would realize that it is safer to conduct trade without any sword hanging over their heads. China, Russia and the three continents must develop a solid workable alternative to the SWIFT payment system in order conduct trade without any unsavory characters who wish to sabotage commerce. Countries around the world better start recognizing the fact that there is no need for dependency on one single system to conduct commerce, since this inevitably leads to monopolization and a tool to exercize hegemony over others. Snap out of it, wake the hell up, be pro-active and stop living in an inter-dimensional reality where there is no other alternative. There was, is and always will be alternatives to choose from.
Hendrik_2000
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Via mr unknown. It is not abut trade but technology supremacy and the west is loosing it
Goldman illustrates a point that not only applies to 5G, but just about every emerging sphere of competition. In the new cold war between the PRC & the US, the key determining factor of the outcome - above all others - will be the competence & wisdom of internal governance.
The author of the NSC memo last January was right. We are losing. You don't see it in day-to-day events, but the technologies that will shape the world economy for a generation are gestating in China, and starting to roll out. They told us what they were doing, and we ignored it. Now the hour is late.
China Leapfrogs the U.S. in 5G Internet
BY DAVID P. GOLDMAN DECEMBER 20, 2018
In a Dec. 14 op-ed for the Washington Post, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell declared that our present tangle with China is not a trade war but a tech war. If China's flagship telecom equipment company Huawei gets the jump on the rollout of 5G internet, Morell said, China will have the capacity to monitor communications, sabotage industrial systems, and "will have a significant head start economically, in cybersecurity and in signals intelligence -- i.e., in promoting its economy, protecting its secrets and stealing those of its rivals."
That's the least of our problems.
When U.S. intelligence officials argue against the use of Huawei equipment on security grounds, they are in effect asking our allies to buy substitutes from Nokia, in neutral Finland. Just how secure do they expect that to be? No American company still competes in that market. Cisco used to, but abandoned manufacturing in favor of more profitable, less capital-intensive software businesses.
For the past seven years, Huawei executives have traveled the world preaching the benefits of a broadband "ecosystem" -- high-speed connectivity for commerce, finance, as well as manufacturing and transportation. They put on trade show extravaganzas to showcase their plans and loaded their website with details. Fifth-generation Internet, or 5G, will let you download a movie in a few seconds. It will also allow manufacturers to turn every machine, appliance, and vehicle into a "smart" tool through the so-called "Internet of things."
At the beginning of 2018, a National Security Council memo warned: “We are losing. Whoever leads in technology and market share for 5G deployment will have a tremendous advantage towards [ . . .] commanding the heights of the information domain,” the Financial Times reported. That is correct, but it's six years behind the curve. The U.S. revved up a campaign to dissuade its allies from using Huawei equipment well after the Chinese firm positioned itself as the dominant equipment supplier. The U.S. nearly shut down the Chinese handset maker ZTE by banning export of the Qualcomm chips that power its smartphones, in retaliation for ZTE's violation of sanctions against Iran (eventually ZTE paid a multi-billion dollar fine and accepted tight controls). We can't do that to Huawei. After the ZTE business, Huawei started a crash program to make itself self-sufficient in high-performance chipsets. Its Kirin chipset designed by its design subsidiary Isilicon and manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor can do whatever Qualcomm can do.
American officials were in Berlin last week insisting that Germany keep Huawei equipment out of its networks. Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, which have close intelligence ties to the U.S., acceded to the American request. So far, Germany has brushed off American demands. Earlier today, China Daily reported that Huawei was conducting business as usual in Europe:
Even though it faces security allegations in several developed markets, Chinese technology major Huawei said on Wednesday that its global operations remain stable, with businesses in Germany running normally and its involvement in 5G construction by French telecom operators remaining active.
The comment came shortly after Huawei won a vote of faith in India, which had invited the Shenzhen-based company to conduct local 5G trials.
Analysts said the Indian government invitation and foreign companies' willingness to use Huawei's products highlight the trustworthiness of the company and provide a testament to Huawei's technological prowess.
In an internal statement to employees on Wednesday, Huawei said that in addition to business in Germany and France, the company is also replying to Japanese operators' 5G bid and actively participating in local 5G trials.
If that's true, we are in profound trouble. I don't expect our allies, such as they are, to back us up. A top official of a central European government told me earlier this month that virtually all the telecommunications infrastructure in central Europe is Chinese. China came in to the market at the beginning of this decade when the U.S. showed little interest in the region, and it's too late to change. "We've tried to make our American partners understand this," the official said.
Fifteen years ago Huawei stole technology (it was caught red-handed with Cisco software). Now Huawei spends $14 billion a year on R&D, as much as Microsoft. It's the largest telecommunications equipment producer by far, and the most advanced. It's way past stealing. It bankrupted its competitors by undercutting prices, and hired their best engineers. It's employee-owned, with the most incentivized workforce in the world. When I visited Huawei's brand-new, sprawling campus in Shenzhen three years ago, I passed a crowd of workers leaving the company cafeteria. "They have a mat under their desk and they'll take a nap after lunch, because they work until 10:00 p.m.," said my guide.
Thousands of European engineers work in Huawei's European R&D centers. We'll never know whether the Chinese are innovators or just adopters, because Huawei has globalized its innovation. It doesn't rely on Chinese nationals.
Intelligence gathering is a minor sidelight in Huawei's operations. As an investment banker for the Hong Kong boutique Reorient Group, I was present when Huawei executives pitched emerging-market governments on the merit of national broadband systems. They weren't just selling handsets and routers. They proposed the bottom-up transformation of poor and moribund economies, where broadband would bring in e-commerce and e-finance, and sweep the underutilized people of backward countries into the world market. China has increased per capita GDP by 35 times -- that's 3,500 percent -- during the past three decades, and Huawei's ambition is to transplant the Chinese model everywhere from Moldavia to Mexico, from the Straits of Taiwan to the English channel. Huawei is China's principle instrument for Sino-forming the Global South.
There's nothing nice about Huawei. One of the exhibits I saw during a three-hour tour of the company's new products showed a map of Guangdong City, with many thousands of little lights. "That's the location of every smartphone in the city," the guide said. "We can correlate location with Internet searches, social media posts, and online purchases." "And what would you use this information for?", I asked. "Oh, it's helpful if you want to pick a location for a new Kentucky Fried Chicken," said the guide. Huawei also services China's techno-totalitarian dictatorship.
In the industrial world, Chinese mastery of 5G may lead to Chinese dominance in a host of other technologies -- perhaps the technologies that will define the economy of the 21st Century.
The Trump administration is absolutely right to focus on the challenge from Huawei. Demanding that our allies boycott Huawei, drastically raising the cost of 5G rollout, isn't going to get us very far. We sound like Mortimer Duke in Trading Places, shouting: "Turn those machines back on!"
If we want to stop China from dominating high-tech manufacturing, we're going to have to fight this tech war the way we fought and won the Cold War with Russia, as I argued in this space last month. When Jimmy Carter was president and Dr. Harold Brown was Defense secretary, we were spending 1.25% of GDP on federal R&D. Now it's half that level, and most of the budget is absorbed by the F-35 or climate change.
The author of the NSC memo last January was right. We are losing. You don't see it in day-to-day events, but the technologies that will shape the world economy for a generation are gestating in China, and starting to roll out. They told us what they were doing, and we ignored it. Now the hour is late.
Goldman illustrates a point that not only applies to 5G, but just about every emerging sphere of competition. In the new cold war between the PRC & the US, the key determining factor of the outcome - above all others - will be the competence & wisdom of internal governance.
The author of the NSC memo last January was right. We are losing. You don't see it in day-to-day events, but the technologies that will shape the world economy for a generation are gestating in China, and starting to roll out. They told us what they were doing, and we ignored it. Now the hour is late.
China Leapfrogs the U.S. in 5G Internet
BY DAVID P. GOLDMAN DECEMBER 20, 2018
In a Dec. 14 op-ed for the Washington Post, former acting CIA Director Michael Morell declared that our present tangle with China is not a trade war but a tech war. If China's flagship telecom equipment company Huawei gets the jump on the rollout of 5G internet, Morell said, China will have the capacity to monitor communications, sabotage industrial systems, and "will have a significant head start economically, in cybersecurity and in signals intelligence -- i.e., in promoting its economy, protecting its secrets and stealing those of its rivals."
That's the least of our problems.
When U.S. intelligence officials argue against the use of Huawei equipment on security grounds, they are in effect asking our allies to buy substitutes from Nokia, in neutral Finland. Just how secure do they expect that to be? No American company still competes in that market. Cisco used to, but abandoned manufacturing in favor of more profitable, less capital-intensive software businesses.
For the past seven years, Huawei executives have traveled the world preaching the benefits of a broadband "ecosystem" -- high-speed connectivity for commerce, finance, as well as manufacturing and transportation. They put on trade show extravaganzas to showcase their plans and loaded their website with details. Fifth-generation Internet, or 5G, will let you download a movie in a few seconds. It will also allow manufacturers to turn every machine, appliance, and vehicle into a "smart" tool through the so-called "Internet of things."
At the beginning of 2018, a National Security Council memo warned: “We are losing. Whoever leads in technology and market share for 5G deployment will have a tremendous advantage towards [ . . .] commanding the heights of the information domain,” the Financial Times reported. That is correct, but it's six years behind the curve. The U.S. revved up a campaign to dissuade its allies from using Huawei equipment well after the Chinese firm positioned itself as the dominant equipment supplier. The U.S. nearly shut down the Chinese handset maker ZTE by banning export of the Qualcomm chips that power its smartphones, in retaliation for ZTE's violation of sanctions against Iran (eventually ZTE paid a multi-billion dollar fine and accepted tight controls). We can't do that to Huawei. After the ZTE business, Huawei started a crash program to make itself self-sufficient in high-performance chipsets. Its Kirin chipset designed by its design subsidiary Isilicon and manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor can do whatever Qualcomm can do.
American officials were in Berlin last week insisting that Germany keep Huawei equipment out of its networks. Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, which have close intelligence ties to the U.S., acceded to the American request. So far, Germany has brushed off American demands. Earlier today, China Daily reported that Huawei was conducting business as usual in Europe:
Even though it faces security allegations in several developed markets, Chinese technology major Huawei said on Wednesday that its global operations remain stable, with businesses in Germany running normally and its involvement in 5G construction by French telecom operators remaining active.
The comment came shortly after Huawei won a vote of faith in India, which had invited the Shenzhen-based company to conduct local 5G trials.
Analysts said the Indian government invitation and foreign companies' willingness to use Huawei's products highlight the trustworthiness of the company and provide a testament to Huawei's technological prowess.
In an internal statement to employees on Wednesday, Huawei said that in addition to business in Germany and France, the company is also replying to Japanese operators' 5G bid and actively participating in local 5G trials.
If that's true, we are in profound trouble. I don't expect our allies, such as they are, to back us up. A top official of a central European government told me earlier this month that virtually all the telecommunications infrastructure in central Europe is Chinese. China came in to the market at the beginning of this decade when the U.S. showed little interest in the region, and it's too late to change. "We've tried to make our American partners understand this," the official said.
Fifteen years ago Huawei stole technology (it was caught red-handed with Cisco software). Now Huawei spends $14 billion a year on R&D, as much as Microsoft. It's the largest telecommunications equipment producer by far, and the most advanced. It's way past stealing. It bankrupted its competitors by undercutting prices, and hired their best engineers. It's employee-owned, with the most incentivized workforce in the world. When I visited Huawei's brand-new, sprawling campus in Shenzhen three years ago, I passed a crowd of workers leaving the company cafeteria. "They have a mat under their desk and they'll take a nap after lunch, because they work until 10:00 p.m.," said my guide.
Thousands of European engineers work in Huawei's European R&D centers. We'll never know whether the Chinese are innovators or just adopters, because Huawei has globalized its innovation. It doesn't rely on Chinese nationals.
Intelligence gathering is a minor sidelight in Huawei's operations. As an investment banker for the Hong Kong boutique Reorient Group, I was present when Huawei executives pitched emerging-market governments on the merit of national broadband systems. They weren't just selling handsets and routers. They proposed the bottom-up transformation of poor and moribund economies, where broadband would bring in e-commerce and e-finance, and sweep the underutilized people of backward countries into the world market. China has increased per capita GDP by 35 times -- that's 3,500 percent -- during the past three decades, and Huawei's ambition is to transplant the Chinese model everywhere from Moldavia to Mexico, from the Straits of Taiwan to the English channel. Huawei is China's principle instrument for Sino-forming the Global South.
There's nothing nice about Huawei. One of the exhibits I saw during a three-hour tour of the company's new products showed a map of Guangdong City, with many thousands of little lights. "That's the location of every smartphone in the city," the guide said. "We can correlate location with Internet searches, social media posts, and online purchases." "And what would you use this information for?", I asked. "Oh, it's helpful if you want to pick a location for a new Kentucky Fried Chicken," said the guide. Huawei also services China's techno-totalitarian dictatorship.
In the industrial world, Chinese mastery of 5G may lead to Chinese dominance in a host of other technologies -- perhaps the technologies that will define the economy of the 21st Century.
The Trump administration is absolutely right to focus on the challenge from Huawei. Demanding that our allies boycott Huawei, drastically raising the cost of 5G rollout, isn't going to get us very far. We sound like Mortimer Duke in Trading Places, shouting: "Turn those machines back on!"
If we want to stop China from dominating high-tech manufacturing, we're going to have to fight this tech war the way we fought and won the Cold War with Russia, as I argued in this space last month. When Jimmy Carter was president and Dr. Harold Brown was Defense secretary, we were spending 1.25% of GDP on federal R&D. Now it's half that level, and most of the budget is absorbed by the F-35 or climate change.
The author of the NSC memo last January was right. We are losing. You don't see it in day-to-day events, but the technologies that will shape the world economy for a generation are gestating in China, and starting to roll out. They told us what they were doing, and we ignored it. Now the hour is late.
Looks like it's soybean harvest season again in Brazil. I hope Brazil, Argentina and Russia can increase their production to reduce dependence on antagonistic Americans. China needs to deleverage any reliance for food product from US.
Brazil Heads Toward Early Soybean Harvest
By 12/5/2018
Soybean planting in Brazil is 89% complete, according to Curitiba consultancy AgRural. That’s well ahead of last year at 84% and the five-year average of 78%
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Considering the current planting pace, soybean harvest could start as early as the second half of December in the South American country – the earliest ever. Typically, soybeans are harvested in January at the earliest.
This would allow a larger second corn crop and cotton production, which are planted right after soy is harvest. In the state of Mato Grosso, most agronomists and experts expect that by the first week in January, nearly 5% of soybeans will be harvested.
The quick planting is attributed to frequent rains in Mato Grosso, the largest producer of the oilseed in the country. Rodrigo Rigon, a manager who monitors nearly 320,000 acres in the region of Rondonopolis, says the rains will boost yields. “Our expectation is to harvest roughly 55 bushels per acres (or 63 bags of 60 kg per hectare),” he told Agriculture.com.
Brazil Heads Toward Early Soybean Harvest
By 12/5/2018
Soybean planting in Brazil is 89% complete, according to Curitiba consultancy AgRural. That’s well ahead of last year at 84% and the five-year average of 78%
.
Considering the current planting pace, soybean harvest could start as early as the second half of December in the South American country – the earliest ever. Typically, soybeans are harvested in January at the earliest.
This would allow a larger second corn crop and cotton production, which are planted right after soy is harvest. In the state of Mato Grosso, most agronomists and experts expect that by the first week in January, nearly 5% of soybeans will be harvested.
The quick planting is attributed to frequent rains in Mato Grosso, the largest producer of the oilseed in the country. Rodrigo Rigon, a manager who monitors nearly 320,000 acres in the region of Rondonopolis, says the rains will boost yields. “Our expectation is to harvest roughly 55 bushels per acres (or 63 bags of 60 kg per hectare),” he told Agriculture.com.
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